Classes

Blacktop Comedy is Sacramento's most respected improv training center. Let go of judgment, live-in-the-moment, and discover your creative potential. We offer classes for the beginner to advanced. Improv is a life skill that helps you prepare for sales, conversations, speeches, and yes, live performance.

What are you waiting for!? Join us for two hours of nonstop laughs, improv games, and new friends! Have you seen Whose Line is it Anyway, and thought, “I want to have as much fun as them!“This is the place you can do that!

No previous improv experience necessary. Everyone in Sacramento and Placer is welcome at IMPROV PLAYGROUND! It’s the perfect place to learn, grow, and discover the life-changing power of improv. Improv is all about listening and making your partner look good!

A highly respected comedy workshop created and presented by Eddie Brill - former Talent Coordinator for the "Late Show with David Letterman and current creative director of both the Great American Comedy and the Woodstock Comedy Festivals.

He has been running this one-of-a-kind workshop around the world since 1998. Eddie will instruct you in the key elements towards gaining the insight and understanding necessary in developing and retooling your show, from a live stage performance to a smart and hilarious television experience.

Each workshop participant receives individual coaching on the spot from Eddie.

Welcome to IMPROV TUNE-UP. Your mission.... listen, trust, develop your characters, and explore the scene. Are you ready to be the best improviser possible?

IMPROV TUNE-UP is your chance for practice, stage time, and feedback. It's a workout for your creativity. IMPROV TUNE-UP is about practice and not about perfection. Our experienced teachers have crafted the perfect 2 hour drop-in improv class, every week.

Have fun, meet new people and learn to improvise in this popular class at Blacktop Comedy. Blacktop Comedy offers a unique approach to improv that helps you focus on the moment, creativity, and laughter.

Learn how to let go of judgement and fear while supercharging your listening skills. Unleash the freedom of saying "Yes, And!" We know how to help you become a more confident presenter, performer, and artist.

Welcome to Foundation and Character! Our six-week course is designed to help you develop your core improv skills as a performer. Discover the Foundation of every improv scene, and how you use them to make every scene stronger, funnier, and more interesting. Improv 2301 also helps you effectively build, develop and sustain a character a scene.

In six weeks you will be fearlessly initiating scenes, and be a more confident improvise

Stand-Up 101 is your opportunity to learn how to be a comedian with Keith Lowell Jensen. He's an award-winning comedy writer, performer, and teacher who's been serious about comedy for over 20 years. Whether you want to be a stand-up comedian, a comedy writer, funny public speaker, or simply inject more humor into your life, Keith's class is what you need!

Keith easily breaks down the comedy writing and the performance process. He shares all the vital techniques, secrets and skills used by comedians to create great comedy material. You'll go from idea to writing and performing a five-minute set in just weeks! A fun and challenging class for those who want to succeed